Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Masayuki Nishiguchi

Minoru Noguchi

Tsuneo Takahashi

Toru Yagi

Naomasa Kimura

A mechanical quantity sensor element making use of a stress-magneto effect of noncrystalline magnetic alloy. This mechanical quantity sensor element is manufactured by coupling a piece of noncrystalline magnetic alloy having positive magnetostriction with another material such as, for example, thermo-setting resin at a temperature exceeding an operating temperature range of the mechanical quantity sensor element, and then cooling them to the operating temperature range. Due to a difference in a coefficient of thermal expansion between the piece and the material, compression strain is preliminarily given to the noncrystalline magnetic alloy piece, and the mechanical quantity sensor element has an excellent linearity and a wide detectable range for mechanical quantities.

Method of mounting a mechanical quantity sensor element

A torque sensor comprising a magnetic member whose magnetostrictive characteristics vary with the amount of torque applied thereto and coils for detecting magnetostrictive variation disposed opposite the magnetic member, and a method of manufacturing the same. The torque sensor is constituted as an independent unit separate from the shaft whose torque is to be measured. The independent unit consists of a cylindrical member having the magnetic member attached thereto and an enclosure member which is provided with the coils and is mounted so as to cover the cylindrical member and be rotatable about the same axis as the cylindrical member. The method of manufacturing the torque member comprises the steps of first copper plating and then solder plating a torque transmission member and a magnetic member destined to be attached to the outer circumference of the torque transmission member, wrapping the magnetic member on the torque transmission member, and solder-bonding the torque transmission member and the magnetic member by heating them while uniform pressure is being applied to the entirety of the wrapped region.

Method of manufacturing a torque sensor

A torque sensor comprising a magnetic member whose magnetostrictive characteristics vary with the amount of torque applied thereto and coils for detecting magnetostrictive variation disposed opposite the magnetic member, and a method of manufacturing the same. The torque sensor is constituted as an independent unit separate from the shaft whose torque is to be measured. The independent unit consists of a cylindrical member having the magnetic member attached thereto and an enclosure member which is provided with the coils and is mounted so as to cover the cylindrical member and be rotatable about the same axis as the cylindrical member. The method of manufacturing the torque member comprises the steps of first copper plating and then solder plating a torque transmission member and a magnetic member destined to be attached to the outer circumference of the torque transmission member, and solder-bonding the torque transmission member and the magnetic member by heating them while uniform pressure is being applied to the entirety of the wrapped region.

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Saitama, Japan

Masayuki Nishiguchi